Farmers at the Mbo-i- Kamiti Society in Kiambu Tuesday burnt their coffee bushes in protest of the alleged mismanagement of the coffee factory.

The angry farmers demanded the payment of their coffee arrears amounting to 200 million shillings.

The Mboi Kamiti cooperative sacco has hit headlines but always for the wrong reasons.

The farmers are now alleging that their large coffee plantations were not helping them during these hard economic times and so they opted to burn the coffee bushes.

Tthe farmers have been supplying their coffee to Mboi kamiti factory allegedly without receiving any payments.

They are now demanding arrears amounting to 200 million shillings

The factory manager Gabriel Kamau however says the factory can not pay the farmers as it is also in debt and may soon go under.